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County And Vicinity

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Day
17
Month
November
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Thomas Gott ie building ;i :i.' liini on hls places at Willis. Síio and Lodi farmers are feuffer Ing becavuse of chiekcii thleve, The whiejat that R'ot a fjtart dor ing the early fall, is looking fine iiow David Rockwell of Sylvaii, ha$ sold 40 acres of laad to Denmis A. f?paul ding. A school liousc, built la IStï. a W'nterloo. was so!d at atb-Mion last week. Mr. and Mre. H. C. Reynolds will entertain the Dumdee Farmers' Chub Dec. 3d. The Bridgewater Readlmg Clrcle wü meet on Nor. 22. wltia Mr. and Mre. E. O. Allen. 'Thie ladies of the York Baptist ctorch, announce a Thanksgiving eliicfcein piO social. A. A. Wood, of Saline, hns purchased 200 shropshire sheep of O. C. Burkhart. of Lima. A eharacter sooial, for the benefit of the church. will be. given. at the Town Hall, in Lima, Nov. 26. Harry Smith, -vho lives ia Kansas, vfetfeed hi9 old home in Augusta last week, after beiag away 20 years. SheMoa S. Stobbip.s. of Asalta, ,had an arm chopped off by .belng drawn into a eorn huSklng Vnachlne recentl.v. John Buchman and famlly have mowd from Sharon to Ann Arbor, wOiere tliey will keep a boaïdlng house. The Manchester l. o. T. M's vteited Jiapoleon Ciiapter yesterday. Bamquet at 5 o'clook- vork afterward. The Noi-thei-n Pacific R. lï. advw. tlslng car has been "doing" -the foatbern part of the county for seiioral days past. A( Dester a unión service wiH be ■liclcl at the Baptist church oa Thamsgiri! ra(y, wkith a sermón by Rev. J. j. Sfcaïey. TlLe pwple of Dexter are cxertfaig theanseiTOs to secure a fine soldier's monument In that place, to g:o wlth the cannoa given by the war depart■memt. Married, at the M. E. parsonage, Toiesday eveoing, by Rev. F. O. Jones, Mr. Fred Lewis, of Lake Rid-e, and Mi-s Namte Johmston, of thls place. -MÜan Leader. All the Maeoflic lodg.es of the county have been summaned to a school of tosrtBuction to be held vith Phoe "K Lodge, Ypsilanti, on Wednesday ■evieminig, Nov. 24. Oui HaKowe'-eji nigh-t the younger portton of the Brighton nrale j)Opulatioa sluoveled the -ivhole town iato the nvill poind.-Jiorthviiie Record It nwiBt have beon a, damp big shovel. Tli Leader asserts that, Dexter is wrfertiva: from a freight, car íamlae. Could that have been possffl)le one, two or three years ago ? Respectofmt tO the Atln Arbor DemSaline butchers will sell no inore meat raniess cash accompanies the Order. Tlieir next move will be no cash for bologna meat e ; that would v il -s(me" mieaB.-Piymoatliliaij 11, the-re's no uise barking about it. A su-it for $10,000 damages for defamation of character has beeu brouight by Cari F. Wnerthner agaimst the Garman Woi-klng Sooiety, of Manchester. Lehman Broa. & Stivei, of Aam Arbor, are hia Kttomieye. A MancheBter g-irl, while visitlng nelatlvieB, ivas asked lf slue over saw ■'i.ybody milk a cow, replied: "Oh, yee, indeed I mms; it Jusfc tlckleá me to death to see uacle jerk two of tho cow'a faucets at the same, time " - Baterprtee. Ana Arbor has a blind .piano timer. He sees wlbh hls ears.-Adrian.pre.ss. Yes, sir. And be oan-C sharp.-A. A Couuier. Thi, wül all sound TOry lat, .to the plano tunar. -Northville Record. It would B natural that it Bliould.- Milan Leader. Wm. Sclweirring, of Freedom, was a poor maricsmao. H9 Was called to kiü a horse, whoso days oí uefulmeiss liad baen ftassed, and in attcmpting to shooc th animal, he Klioi: himseif balow che right eye, death wsuilUng almost instantly. JS6. Sebatz has neceived a letter iom lik son Tv-ho startd for the Klondlke laat fall, da'ted Dawson City. Oct. 8, in which he.states fchat he aoid the balance of the party are well, amd that they an-e building a cabln, and wül winter in tbat city. - Cheleea Herald. PoBtoiaBier Baüey at Manchester has mioved the office to the building foTmerly occapied by the "people's slioe store," wliich has beca oleganty fitted tip tbe purpose witli cniely new fui-niture, boxes, drawers, issortinig tables, mojiey order counem, etc. Tiie new office eclipses aanyUhlng In tlüs Bection of the state. Tliia station has baan do i 115 a neavy íneUght biusioess tliis fa.ll, a.s ligh as sixteea cars standing on the eide trax;k havo beau seen u.fc 0113 time loadi'iig and unloading.- Clinton Locai. Arad still the free silver papers ara looking all over for evltleaces of better times, and pretend not to see tlim. Old mem, middSfv ageil men, young men lww much corn can you husfe In a daiy ? coques 'ii i-ttle boy, not yet geven years öld, -who one il iy last week pulled down the shocks and huisked twenty busliels. It is AVtilard Kouss who i? radjT to, coníitlerüvg his age, match youiany day. - Saline Obseiver. Willle is a Rouse-r. , Tbc asw advertising curtain at the town hall is not what one would really cali a "tháng of beauity." In in f act its eff-ect om one's mind i-i similar tbat caused by a 'íigiitmare. It is toi ba lioped that Uie cúrtala wUl be, to; use tdie language of tbe iimmortal Grover, "relegated 1o tlue shades of mmiocuous desseutude," and thie next man wlio comee alcmg and a t -tempt -s a similar écheme sh'ould be lired trom the Vlllage fortM-it.h. - Chelsea Standard. Theie was a disgraceful fi.Ut last Sunday afternoon between a party of town l)oys ajid the teiophone conf-tnwtio-n g'ang, in a popular alley. One man waa knocked senseless wi-Ui a pair of brass buuckles. The next ■mo;míig a number of fcllowe .weré in sluady avenue tuitil Tliey iound out that thene wouid be io irrests. lliere is some curiosity to kmow wlieiie the lighting inspira tlon carne í:om. - Hiidsoin Post. From the piivate entrance most likely. On Wedrwsday momlng last Kev. IjouU P. Goldrfck oí SU Patrlck's church, Northaeld, performed he ceifflaoiij' ithat unit-ed the llves of ('Hiiienoe O'Connor and Miss Nellie FitzgeraJd, two popular you'ng peopls oí his pa.rish. A sis tof of the 1): ide. Miss Katte, acted as briesinaid, anid a broither of the groom, Oícar, as best mam. Returning rom a brÍ2Í weddtag trip the yoang coupüe have takea up tlieLr re.sldeace cm a fainn m Northiield, "wiiere they will bs happy to miaet their ïrieads. Over nielar Deerfield tJiere Uves a youmig feliow by .thei name of Noah Ptee, wl huistles out at 5 o'cloek in tlhe moi-ning and chops u.p a 'c, araneful of hicfeory by way oï au appetizer, and during the day he keeps busy doing choi-es aboufc the pliace, and all aü thO teinder age oi 105 yetara. Owing 10 the ïact that ha is a user of tobáceo, whieh 'ceiids to shortan life, Uncle Noah does not expect to reach the maiture iv.e that lis Biblical ancestor did.- Brhton Git. izen Rev. Horace Palnier, wlio recemtly movied dom Leoni to Jeddo, Kt. Clair couoity, fiell irom hi,s buggy last Sibbath retuiTHing froni his afternoon appointtnents at Raymond and was picked up insensible. However lm tioon retiii-ned to consciousness. Ou exanmination it was iound his 3iead was ent quit-e badlji ia two places, 'lom w'hich blood ïlowed profiwsely, He was utiable to return iionie until Monday. It in hoped no serious rttralts will follow.- Grass Lak News. Muoh surprise ajid waiidsr flashed through our village Suaday and Monday when the reiort cajue out that Wiliiaun Kleia, who lees thnn two years aigo was married. to Miss Jennie Lindstey, tod very sutïit&nly packed hie truak and döpart-ed lor other I iijjids. As nea.r as can bo learned oí tito ílacte, Mr. K. in tb.O mornlng took üiis wiie to the home of Mis. 'JDaylor to penl the diy snyin he would cal! or hier Hater H th day, which he did at ninie o'clock in the evenlng, anü ind going to tlie door iuformed hls wiïc that the horse atid carriage stood m iront of tjie house and vhat w had baeu homo, t:a.ken hi-s clothag ,-ind wa.s ?oing t leave iLer liever to rotura, for h'er to take tlie Hg and go tome whenever she was endy, amd wi'Ühno fiu'Uneir ceremony Lepagpbed in the darkuess. The vords to Mrs. K. cainB Udoe a rshock. She had to Mrs. Tayllor dariii? the Iay sovenail times spokei of her home and lwiisbaind in tho mout pdleasant ■and aífectlanate manner, and tin; cMiiise for such ;nn outbreak remains a mystery. - Sad-ino Obscrvcr. A TEK1UHI.E ACCIDENT. Susia, tli 10-year-old daughter .i i:.ci)nii(:"ntativE and Mrs. .Tolm Iv. C Umpbell oí Augus a, met Avith a liorliblc accident Wedaesday nlght last, ■d ia 1 1 ïi Frlday moi.niag. Mr. and Mre. C.in':' 1 wc awa.y ïoi' ïlhie avèntoig, and thu li'iied girl ,was doláis soma qalltlng, w ilion tbe gtrl run agalaet the frame and dhls knocked over a kerosene lumip. Tliie lamp brotoei and the oü pan over on tOua dress of the little igl:-l By .t.lie timei the ilames were extiniguisbed slie had received euch a shock amd such injuries that death reeulited Friday. Dr. Berna, wbo remiaiiined wit'li the little girl for two niglittis and a day, says that death was diue nuore ta tlue sliock than to "Pbe bumiis. , Mr. a.n-d Mrs. Camnpbell havo the deiep synnpa,thy of tlie comniuinity in Otmiaral in their terrible alfllotlon.

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Ann Arbor Courier